Mircea Eliade's journal of the years 1957-1969, originally published in English under the title No Souvenirs, is the testimony of a "wandering scholar" caught between three worlds: his native Romania, the France he fled to, and his last homeland, the United States. The journal is filled with his work, dreams, memories of his youth, stories of his travels, the reflections of each day.

Mircea Eliade (1907-86) was the Sewall L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of scores of books, including novels, short stories, and plays; his journals and autobiography; and works in religious studies, including the four-volume History of Religious Ideas.